Baker says criticism of Vice President Joe Biden as the clown prince of politics was unjustified. Unjustified? By whose standards? Biden is to President Barack Obama what Dan Quayle was to George H. W. Bush. The late-night comics treated him as the buffoon he was and is. It’s really saying something negative about the Obama administration when Baker says Biden is the only adult in the room.

Baker says Obama delegated important jobs to Biden. The main one I remember is Biden was to make sure the stimu-less funds were well spent — and we all remember what a failure that was. Baker says that Biden is Cheney’s “angelic” twin. Angelic? Remember the Biden-Ryan vice presidential debates where Biden showed himself to be rude, boorish and pompous?

Baker says Biden would be less polarizing. Really? I remember when Biden was speaking to an African-American group and proclaimed that Republicans wanted to “… put you back in chains.” Just the voice of sweetness and light. Baker says Jeb Bush has “primeval” views on reproductive rights. What is primeval about being opposed to wanton killing of babies in the womb?

The general tone of Baker’s article is that Biden is the wizened old political professional who had been a productive right-hand man to Obama. Well, given the Obama administration’s sad record of lies, scandals, obfuscations, stone walls and foreign policy disasters, it would seem that either Biden’s influence is minimal or — worse — he is complicit in the debacle that is the amateur hour called the Obama administration.